Improvement in hand-stamps



Iran STATES PATENT OFFICE,

B. B. HILL, OF OHIOOPEE, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN HAND-STAMPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 59,395, dated November6, 1866.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, B. B. HILL, of Chicopee, county of Hampden, andState of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and usefulImprovement in Hand-Stamps; and I do hereby declare that the same isdescribed and represented in the following specification and drawings;and to enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, I willproceed to describe by referring to the drawings, in which the sameletters indicate like parts in each of the figures.

The natureof thisimprovement willbe understood from the specificationand drawings.

The object desired to be attained thereby is to produce a hand-stamp forcanceling or stamping paper s in a proper manner, susceptible ofperiodical changes, not liable to get out of order, and cheap and simpleof manufacture. In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a sideelevation, partly in section, showing the mechanism in detail. Fig. 2 isa front elevation, showing the dial-plates and the ends of theribbon-cases. Figs. 3 and 4 are wheels, which rotate upon an axis-pinformed in the center of the case, and having characters secured to theedges thereof, each wheel moving or rotating independently of the other,and so arranged inside of said case that any month of the year, or anyday of the month, can be quickly brought into position to be impressedupon paper placed on the bed directly under said letters or characters.

The periphery of the wheel a, Fig. 3, is divided into twelve parts. Eachpart is provided with characters to represent each month of the year. Italso has twelve perforations for holding the wheels in position for useby means of a spring-catch, e, and huh I), by which said wheel issecured loosely upon the axis 0, formed in the center of the case (I.

The periphery of the wheel a, Fig. 4, is divided into thirty-one parts,which represent the days of the month. It is also provided with notchesor perforations to receive the catch of the spring f, for holding eachcharacter representing the day of the month in position for use.

The case (I is made or cast with three apartments, and in one piece ofcast metal, having a hub, 0, which serves the double purpose upon whichto arrange the wheels at a, and it further performs very importantservice in mill ing out the inside of the case, in which the wheels c aare arranged, and operate upon the axle 0. First one wheel is placedupon the axle c, then another upon the hub of the first, and otherssuccessively, as desirable. Said case is so made that each respectiveapartment thereof is accessible only from one side thereof, and thewheels arranged therein upon the hub c by placing them upon said axis 0only from one side, for the purpose of rendering it more accessible andconvenient for use. In order to render it more convenient for attachingand removing it from the plunger-spindle s, a bracket, 1", is provided,which has a dowel, a, formed on the lower end thereof, which is fittedclosely into the socket a, formed in the lower end of the spindle .9,while the upper end is secured to and serves as a detent to hold thespindle and case in their proper posit ion in the stock A, while at the,same time it allows said spindle to play freely up and down by theaction of the hand upon the pad and the spring between the pad and thestock. This bracket r is firmly secured to the back of the case 61. Bythis arrangement it is only necessary to remove the screw it from theupper end of the bracket 1' in order to remove the case d, with all themechanism attached thereto, from the spindle s and stock A.

The wheels 0. a are arranged upon the hub cthe first directly upon thehub or spindle c, the second (and third, more or less, if required) uponthe hub of the first, and the third upon the hub of the second, whenrequired, the hubs of each projecting forward through the plate or capk, which closes up the front of the case-d. The outer ends of these hubsproject past each other sufficient to receive each its appropriate dial,70 la, which are made, one smaller than the other, so as to show, onethe month of the year, and one the day of the month, and, whendesirable, one the year or years. These dials are secured to the hubs oftheir respective wheels to a.

The plate k has a line, 11, directly under which the figures thatindicate the month, day of the month, or year are brought by pressingback the springs e f and turning the plates is k by means of the handles0 o of each of the plates, which, for J an. 1, placed directly E. G.HOLDEN.

Apparatus for Preserving Fruit and Vegetables.

Patented Nov 6, 1866.

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